Future release World of Warcraft Magazine 40-page preview

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Back in August Blizzard announced that it had teamed up with Future Publishing to launch a new magazine dedicated to World ofWarcraft . This magazine is going to be unique due to the fact it has 148-pages and no advertisements. It is also only being offered via a subscription and won’t be made available at the newsstand.

As we get closer to the launch of the magazine Future has released a 40-page teaser of what to expect from the first edition. The mag is split into sections including Features, Tactics, Community, Advice, and Columns for regular contributions from well-known writers. There’s also the usual big stories that are treated separately to the included Features and appear in the first few pages.

The preview is heavy on images, but there seems to be a lot of information for the WoW player and if you are a regular to the game then this looks like it might be an essential purchase.

You can sign up for a subscription right now which start at $39.95 for one year (4 issues) and $69.95 for two years (8 issues). The first edition does not have an official release date yet and is only listed as “Coming Soon”, but it will be available in English, French, German, and Spanish when it finally ships.

As Mitch commented when we first reported about this Dan Amrich is Editor-in-Chief on the magazine and his experience (Official Xbox Magazine, GamesRadar to name a couple) will ensure a good mix of content that is well-targeted at the intended audience.

Restricting the magazine to four issues per year is only going to help in my opinion. You don’t want to be reading through 148 pages of WoW news and advice every month when you could be playing and the price of a subscription would be pushed out of reach of some younger players. Once a quarter is a nice middle-ground and gives the magazine time to focus on current events in the game rather than rushing to get the next issue out on time.

This is a print magazine, but with the preview being made available online I do wonder whether a digital version will be made available. There are a number of mags offering digital versions of their back issues so maybe we will see a digital year edition after issue four ships?